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the more germany is trying to boost and keep up good relationships concerning the economy and trade, and germany as russia's a second largest trading partner in the world. even on this day in moscow, several contracts have been signed worth several billion euro. despite all the differences, germany and russia are trying to keep good relations here. >> thank you for that update from marco. >> a war crimes court has overturned the conviction of two high-profile croatia and general sentenced for atrocities against serbians. >> there has been a furious outrage. >> and now a free man. the appeals chamber found the former croatian troops general was not personally not responsible for crimes committed at the end of the croatian war. they expressed satisfaction a. >> it is a fantastic day for criminal-justice and a fantastic day for the history. the appeal judgment shows the original conviction was completely wrong. cut stems from a 1995 incident with -- where the ethnic serbs were located. the croatian army bomb cities as part of an offensive to take the region back. many civilians died, te
the more germany is trying to boost and keep up good relationships concerning the economy and trade, and germany as russia's a second largest trading partner in the world. even on this day in moscow, several contracts have been signed worth several billion euro. despite all the differences, germany and russia are trying to keep good relations here. >> thank you for that update from marco. >> a war crimes court has overturned the conviction of two high-profile croatia and general...
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what would you think be the impact on the economy if we go over the cliff? what if policymakers, on the other hand, kick the can town the road for -- kick the can down the road for several months but fail to address the current gap between revenues and spending policies and fail to stabilize long-term debt? paul, how would you answer that? >> well, i think maybe a little too much has made this over the cliff business. we're not going to soft this long-rake -- solve this hong-range problem, in my view, in the next seven weeks, whatever we have. it's going to take some time. we have to deal with the short-run problem. we have this thing sitting here with a big sequester and a big tax increase. so that has to be dealt with in terms of the immediate economy. and i think that can be done. but i don't -- that will take some action on taxes and on spending, but it won't be the action that cures the longer-term problem. that's going to take some time, and i wouldn't call that kicking down the road. it's going to take some time to redesign the tax system which needs
what would you think be the impact on the economy if we go over the cliff? what if policymakers, on the other hand, kick the can town the road for -- kick the can down the road for several months but fail to address the current gap between revenues and spending policies and fail to stabilize long-term debt? paul, how would you answer that? >> well, i think maybe a little too much has made this over the cliff business. we're not going to soft this long-rake -- solve this hong-range...
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maybe these are different people who just are focused on the economy. no, indeed they were the same old thing but they had been hiding those views. this last two years, i mean, from our perspective at planned parenthood, the defunding thing, then the kind of as we call it the komen brouhaha, which we're glad was repaired, the birth control refusal, then how we became an issue and how other women's related issues -- it just became part of this narrative. what is going on and what do they believe? and then this hopeful aspect of, hey, and here's some people who were talking to my real wife and seem to get what i deal with on a day to day by a sills. i think it was that one-two punch. >> as you mentioned earlier, this is all economics for women and to even add to all of the health care issues. i mean, birth control is only a social issue if you don't have to pay for it. it's really all economics. but on top of that and understoodneath -- underneath it is you also have the attacks on collective bargaining where so many of our women are members of unions ask
maybe these are different people who just are focused on the economy. no, indeed they were the same old thing but they had been hiding those views. this last two years, i mean, from our perspective at planned parenthood, the defunding thing, then the kind of as we call it the komen brouhaha, which we're glad was repaired, the birth control refusal, then how we became an issue and how other women's related issues -- it just became part of this narrative. what is going on and what do they...
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it stabilized the economy and i know it's very popular. by the way, it got worse at a particular point in time. it's when aig got a hundred and $60 billion. >> in part if you really think about it now, aig in all of that. >> yes and blamed for the unpopular t.a.r.p. goes across the board, no question. aig, the first $80 billion came from the fed on its own. but when i cannot aig paid the bonuses, i've never seen the public so angry. the answer is that there's a successful policy that could've been better, succeeded what had to be done and ultimately will be seen as having laid the groundwork for a recovery from a near collapse. >> okay, you're not going to be in your job next year or the person who deals with wall street in many ways is maxine waters. it's going to be a bad joke. it's going nowhere fast. let's not go there. what i was going to rescue his face and really have less than a minute left. when you think about washington after you leave, do you have more hope about some type of bipartisan compromise of the world is going to get b
it stabilized the economy and i know it's very popular. by the way, it got worse at a particular point in time. it's when aig got a hundred and $60 billion. >> in part if you really think about it now, aig in all of that. >> yes and blamed for the unpopular t.a.r.p. goes across the board, no question. aig, the first $80 billion came from the fed on its own. but when i cannot aig paid the bonuses, i've never seen the public so angry. the answer is that there's a successful policy...
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our economy can't afford that right now. certainly no middle-class family can afford that right now. >> reporter: mr. obama signed legislation extending the bush- era tax cuts two years ago, including those affecting the wealthy, but he said today things are different this time. >> well, two years ago, the economy was in a different situation. we were still very much in the early parts of recovering from the worst economic crisis since the great depression. but what i said at the time is what i meant, which is this was a one-time proposition. and you know, what i have told leaders privately as well as publicly is that we cannot afford to extend the bush tax cuts for the wealthy. what we can do is make sure that middle-class taxes don't go up. mandate, i've got one mandate. i've got a mandate to help middle-class families and families that are working hard to try to get into the middle class. that's my mandate. that's what the american people said. they said, "work really hard to help us." that's my mandate. i don't presume t
our economy can't afford that right now. certainly no middle-class family can afford that right now. >> reporter: mr. obama signed legislation extending the bush- era tax cuts two years ago, including those affecting the wealthy, but he said today things are different this time. >> well, two years ago, the economy was in a different situation. we were still very much in the early parts of recovering from the worst economic crisis since the great depression. but what i said at the...